Sunanda Pushkar murder: Court asks Delhi Police to hand over documents to Shashi Tharoor

Delhi Police has been asked by a court to submit some documents to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor for a case regarding his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death in 2014.

Following Tharoor’s lawyer Vikash Pahwa appeal in the court that some of the documents handed over to his client weren’t readable and also many pages were missing, the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal directed the Delhi Police to do the needful.

Delhi Police filed those documents along with the chargesheet. The honourable court also exempted Tharoor from personal appearance for the day after he filed an application through his advocate in the matter. Saying this, the court posted the matter for further hearing on October 4.

Pushkar was found dead in a luxury hotel in Delhi on January 17, 2014, during the couple’s stay in the hotel as the Congress MP’s official bungalow was being renovated.

The court had earlier directed the city police to hand the documents over to Tharoor along with the chargesheet which included the statements of the witnesses after Tharoor’s plea in the court. The court granted regular bail to the Congress Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram on July 7 which was preceded by the presence of Tharoor following summons against him.

On examining the case, the court observed that there were sufficient reasons to go ahead with the matter and proceeded with the case.

Though the Congressman wasn’t arrested, he has been charged under sections 498A (husband or his relative subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

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